A lot of people who recently bought new computers are asking this question. I tend to ask why would you want to do that, as I generally think Vista is a big improvement. But many people still want or need to downgrade to XP for some specific hardware or software application that won't play well with Vista. Or perhaps they are just more comfortable with XP, and anyway it's their buck, so whatever they want, right?
Well maybe, maybe not. It seems that a number of the new computers, especially notebooks were designed and built after Vista had released. Device drivers for XP were never written for these computers, especially for the video cards. Many people have tried using generic drivers, but you won't get a great result with these generally. So if you might want Windows XP buy a computer with it pre-installed on it . Any new computer today, with the exception of these new ultra portable laptops, will run Vista fine if you want to upgrade or dual boot.
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